At BuzzFeed, Alex Klein looks at the current state of Scientology. Despite claims that 2012 was a “milestone year” for the religion, Klein finds that the religion may be in decline, the result of a “real estate scam” that has angered many of its followers. Klein writes, “To some of these defectors, the structures are metaphors for the religion itself: garish on the outside, empty on the inside. The irony is that the very expansion that Scientology lauds as its renaissance is actually a symbol of internal dissent and decline.”